New Hampshire // Concord, NH // New England Region // Eastern Time (The Granite State) (Proprietary) Colony established[1]: 1623 by Captain John Mason, Royal Colony on October 7, 1691 Independence declared: January 5, 1776 Union admittance: June 21, 1788 // 9th state [1] New Hampshire was part of Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1641 - 1679. [Display overwiew of states formed out of the original 13 colonies]

#4307 // April 16, 2010 (self-adhesive coil definitive) Flags of Our Nation Series New Hampshire State Flag and loom swimming in a lake	#1981 // April 14, 1982 (ex pane of 50 different stamps) State Bird & Flower of New Hampshire Purple Finch (Carpodacus purpureus) and Lilac	#1641 // February 23, 1976 (ex pane of 50 different stamps) American Bicentennial Series New Hampshire State Flag

#1068 // June 21, 1955 // Franconia, NH Discovery of the rock formation "Old Man of the Mountains" on Mount Cannon, White Mountains Sesquicentennial	#2344 // June 21, 1988 // Concord, NH New Hampshire Statehood, Ratification of the Constitution on June 21, 1788 Bicentennial Great Stone Face on Mount Cannon
The rock formation was destroyed on May 3, 2003 by a natural rock fall

#3589 // April 4, 2002 (ex pane of 50 stamps, one for each state) Greetings from New Hampshire Illustration of contemporary postcard in the style of the 1930s/1940s View New Hampshire state quarter View New Hampshire state map View New Hampshire clock

	The state was named by the first proprietor of the colony Captain John Mason (* 1586, † 1635) after the English county of Hampshire. Find out more facts & trivia
	Land Area rounded mi2 [km2] 8,968 [23.227] ranked 44th	Population (census 2010) 1,316,470 ranked 42nd	Population Density per mi2 [km2] of land area 147 [57] ranked 22nd
	The State of New Hampshire has ten counties.
	New Hampshire shares in the north a 58-mile-long (93 km) international border with the Canadian province of Quebec (QC).